Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

1. Article 1(b) of the Convention. Application by law. Recalling its previous comments concerning the meaning of section 47(2) of the Labour Code of 20 July 1998 which provides that all employees have the “right to receive equal salary and benefits for equal work”, the Committee notes the Government’s statement that the term “equal work” in section 47(2) was meant to cover work of equal value. Drawing the Government’s attention to its 2006 general observation concerning the Convention, the Committee asks the Government to consider, for the sake of clarity, and with a view to ensuring the full application of the Convention’s principle in law and in practice, explicitly including the notion of equal remuneration for work of equal value in the legislation in the context of the ongoing labour law revision, and asks the Government to provide information on the measures taken in that regard.

2. Article 2. Application in practice. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report concerning the participation of women in training and employment creation projects. The Committee stresses the need to take further measures to ensure that men and women have access to better paying jobs on an equal footing, including in the formal economy, and asks the Government to continue to provide information on the measures taken in this regard.

3. Part V of the report form. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the Department of Labour Statistics, in close cooperation with the National Institute for Statistics, has been training labour statisticians in order to produce more complete data. The Committee asks the Government to provide statistical information on remuneration, disaggregated by sex, as soon as such data becomes available.